Takenya Moore, human resources manager, will be leaving the Mary Frances Early College of Education and joining the staff at the Office of Faculty Affairs. We wish to thank Takenya for five years of outstanding service to the College and recognize her organizational and management skills that transformed our HR and OFA practices.
She will be missed, and we wish her the best as she starts her journey on North Campus. Takenya’s last day at the College is Tuesday, April 30.
The beginning of Sycarah Fisher’s research journey stemmed from her family’s experiences.
“When I was in graduate school, I was really interested in the idea of resilience, thinking about the different things that myself and my siblings went through and seeing that here I was going into a doctoral program, and here are my brothers who were struggling with drug abuse and in and out of jail and all these things that made me wonder, ‘what makes some people rise above their circumstances and the things that happen, and what makes other people succumb to it?’” she said.
An associate professor in the University of Georgia’s school psychology program housed in the Mary Frances Early College of Education, Fisher originally went to college with the intention of becoming a teacher. However, courses in psychological assessment and neuropsychology paved the way for her to attend graduate school.
Read the full story in UGA Today.
University of Georgia undergraduate students came together to showcase their individual research projects and achievements on April 8-9 at the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Symposium.
Cecilia Rhine, a third-year exercise and sport science student in the Mary Frances Early College of Education, participated in this year’s CURO Symposium. Her project studied the effects of daily step counting on the strain of tibial cartilage. After seeing her friend participate in CURO during her freshman year, Rhine wanted to do the same before she graduated.
“This journey not only provided me with valuable research experience, but also fostered meaningful connections with scholars in the same field as me and supported my academic pursuits,” she said. “I know that research is an important part of kinesiology and science, which is why I wanted to be a part of it during my undergraduate studies.”
Read the full story on the UGA Research website.